Antony and Cleopatra Overview

William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is a tale of love and war. Mark Antony, one of the three rulers of Rome, has been carrying on an affair with Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. After hearing of his wife's death and a rebellion against Rome, Antony returns home with a renewed sense of duty. Once back he must determine how to handle the political upheaval facing him and deal with his ongoing love for the jealous Cleopatra.

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Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
Scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote Antony and Cleopatra in late 1606 or early 1607, shortly after writing King Lear and Macbeth (also covered in WLA...
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William Shakespeare Biographies (5)

The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest of English writers and one of the most extraordinary creators in human history.The ...
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Considered by critics, scholars, and the theater-going public the most important dramatist in the history of English literature, William Shakespeare occupies a unique position in the pantheon of great...
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"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or ...
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William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly ...
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Biography Essay"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer,...
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Tragedy or Satire? How successful in either form do you find Anthony and Cleopatra"
A tragic play involves a character that falls from grace due to his or her own fatal flaw. A tragedy always elevate...
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The play Antony and Cleopatra illustrates the cultural differences between two societies. With the characters of Antony and Cleopatra being a microcosm of Rome and Egypt. Antony is an omnipotent Roman...
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"Antony and Cleopatra" shows the conflict between the "hardihood of the West" and the "luxury of the East" resulting in the eventual fall of the Roman republic, even as it rejoices in its triumph ov...
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The scene I am going to be looking at is act 1 scene 1, there are many different dramatic devices that can be used in this scene, and I believe them all to be very important, just as I view the first ...
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The play Antony and Cleopatra is no doubt about the diminishing of Antony as a result of his love for Cleopatra. Shakespeare portrays this through phases which are visualised and witnessed by; Antony ...
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The first scene is set in the Palace of Cleopatra in the city of Alexandria. The scene opens as a conversation develops between Philo and Demetrius who are Roman friends of Antony. By opening in the...
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Question
`Shakespeare doesn't organize his tragedy as a drama of love between Antony and Cleopatra, but as a drama of the rise and fall of Antony in the struggle for world leadership'. What is your v...
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Sex, manipulation, selfishness, obsession, and dramatic interactions are all present in "Antony and Cleopatra" and "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise." The roles of women in society and conceptions ...
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By changing the title of `Antony and Cleopatra' to `Cleopatra and her Antony' it would be stating that within the play Cleopatra is in control and Antony is a possession. Both during the period this...
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In the majority of Shakespeare's tragedies the protagonist will have a fatal flaw which inevitably leads to their demise. With Antony and Cleopatra being a tragedy this characteristic of a tragedy ca...
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Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is different form the rest of his other plays. The setting of this tragedy is split between two places that are diametrically opposed geographically and symbolically...
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What impression of Antony do we form in act 1"
At the opening of the play, Antony is described in a critical speech in terms which contrast what he once was with what he has become. The brave gener...
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From Shakespeare play, Caesar's life moves through different phases, from that of a nervous triumvir to that of a Roman emperor. When he first started off, he is the adopted son of Julius Caesar, the ...
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From the opening lines of Demetrius in Act 1:1, it is clear the Romans' regard Antony as "a strumpet's fool", abandoning his military endeavours in Rome, while seeking pleasure in Cleopatra's domain. ...
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Shakespeare presents Rome and Egypt to the audience as complete opposites. He does this through visual and oral aids, in order to show the audience the conflict that Antony faces. Shakespeare makes th...
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Shakespeare's Use of Allusions
"Dido a dowdy, Cleopatra a gypsy, Helen and Hero hildings and harlots, Thisbe a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose." (Shakespeare,) This quote is from Mercutio, a c...
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In William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," the first part of this scene is Cleopatra missing Antony and wanting to see him, the second half of the scene is about Antony's message to Cleopatra, a...
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Free Book Notes (1)

Antony and Cleopatra Book Notes is a free study guide on Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. Browse the summary below:
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